The much-discussed LEGO-themed episode of The Simpsons, titled “Brick Like Me,” is set to air this Sunday night. As part of what now feels like the six-month lead-up to the episode’s debut, Fox has released this full-length, movie-style trailer, which features the whole gang living in an all-LEGO world, with Homer crossing back and forth between the block and cartoon versions of himself, much to his confusion and/or horror. It looks … good? Yeah, it looks pretty good.

I don’t know. To be perfectly honest, when I heard “The Simpsons will be doing a LEGO episode and will be releasing a line of Simpson-themed LEGO products at or around the same time” a few months back, dozens and dozens of Shameless Corporate Tie-in alarm bells started going off in my head, which made it difficult to process the news objectively. Because of the ringing. So many bells. I really don’t know why I need all of them. One would probably suffice, provided it’s loud enough.

But I also thought the same thing about The LEGO Movie, which was adorable and fun in ways I very much did not expect when I first heard “Hollywood is making a movie about LEGO,” so there’s that. And, as I said, this trailer looks pretty cool, so there’s that, too.

One thing I’ll give Simpsons in their recent years is that even though the show quality has absolutely fallen off, they’re at least using this time/seemingly invincible “not getting cancelled” status to try new things artistically and take some chances. From hiring all these artists to do the elaborate couch gags to stuff like this…at least they’re doing something different

It seems strange to me that they’d make a LEGO episode in which they didn’t really look all that much like LEGOs. It is also strange that LEGO would make a Simpsons set that doesn’t look all that much like LEGOs. It’s inexplicable that, despite both those things, the Simpsons characters in the LEGO set are not the same as the LEGO characters in the Simpsons episode. It’s like they made every inconsistent and wrong style choice imaginable.

Wow, having not watched a new Simpsons episode in at least 5-6 years, it sounds like the cast is either aging rapidly or gives even less of a shit than Matt Groening does at this point. Julie Kavner in particular.